, on immigration reform hearing on capitol hill last week, this is iowasenatorchuckgrassleyquestioningthe new bill. take a listen. >> how can individuals evade authority and plan such attacks on our soil? how can we beef up security checks on people who wish to enter the united states? how do we ensure that people who wish to do us harm are not eligible for benefits under the immigration laws including this new bill before us? >> goldie taylor, again, that's senator grassley there talking about some steps that could be taken in the wake of what happened to boston, to help things in the future. but at the end of the day, goldie taylor, if someone is hell bent on wreaking havoc in this country, especially a soft target, what more can we do? >> you know, i think that my friend, dave weigel, has the point here. there is nothing in this current legislation, you know, that's been so far agreed to in this deal that would impact this situation. these young men came here as boys. i believe that one was about 15, one was about 8 years old. i'm not sure what you might have found in their background to k

over immigration. republicansenatorchuckgrassleysayscongress needs to take a step back in the debate to secure that the nation's security comes first. his comments were echoed by senator dan coats on sunday. >> how can individuals evade authority and plan such attacks on our soil? how can we beef your security checks on people who wish to enter the united states? how do we ensure that people who wish to do us harm are not eligible for benefits under the immigration laws including this new bill before us? >> you usually end up with bad policy if you do it in an emotional ray or an emotional reaction. we saw some things post 9/11 that had we more irrational time to think this through, perhaps maybe we wouldn't have had some of the pushback on it. >> i watched this for several reasons. >> why? >> because i'm a big dennis rodman fan. people go crazy. richard is going up -- not only a senator but he was also an ambassador. he was so red-faced! >> he was purple! >> he was angry. >> he turned a brighter shade of purple than i've ever seen. >> raging. >> no, sir, you were out o

. >> clayton: do the boston bombing suspect expose flaw of the immigrationsystem?chuckgrassleybroughtthis up on capitol hill. >> we don't know the immigration status of people who terrorized communities in massachusetts, when we find out, it will help shed light on the weaknesses of our system. >> clayton: that raises a largeer question. could it reshape the immigration reform? ask texas congressman louie goehmert joining us from philadelphia. nice to see you. >> thank you. great to be with you. >> clayton: let's dive deeply in the question. we look at the individuals who are here on green card or working visa. does this throw any immigration reform in to flux and raise new questions? >> well, i hate to point out again as senator grass grass did, because he is taking a lot of abuse for it, i understand for those who want to ram through immigration bill so people wouldn't know v a chance to know what is in it, this is inconvenient thing. the fact is, with the system the way it is. even with another country reporting that there is a potential problem here we didn't have the resource or